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The Metal-Rich Nature of Stars with Planets? A&A 373, 1019–1031 (2001) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010648 & c ESO 2001 Astrophysics The metal-rich nature of stars with planets? N. C. Santos1, G. Israelian2, and M. Mayor1 1 Observatoire de Gen`eve, 51 ch. des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland 2 Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain Received 13 March 2001 / Accepted 3 May 2001 Abstract. With the goal of confirming the metallicity “excess” present in stars with planetary-mass companions, we present in this paper a high-precision spectroscopic study of a sample of dwarfs included in the CORALIE extrasolar planet survey. The targets were chosen according to the basic criteria that 1) they formed part of a limited volume and 2) they did not present the signature of a planetary host companion. A few stars with planets were also observed and analysed; namely, HD 6434, HD 13445 (Gl 86), HD 16141, HD 17051 (ι Hor), HD 19994, HD 22049 ( Eri), HD 28185, HD 38529, HD 52265, HD 190228, HD 210277 and HD 217107. For some of these objects there had been no previous spectroscopic studies. The spectroscopic analysis was done using the same technique as in previous work on the metallicity of stars with planets, thereby permitting a direct comparison of the results. The work described in this paper thus represents the first uniform and unbiased comparison between stars with and without planetary-mass companions in a volume- limited sample. The results show that 1) stars with planets are significantly metal-rich, and 2) that the source of the metallicity is most probably “primordial”. The results presented here may impose serious constraints on planetary system formation and evolution models. Key words. stars: abundances – stars: chemically peculiar – planetary systems 1. Introduction Opposing to this view, it had been proposed that the observed metallicity “excess” may be related to the “pol- One of the most exciting and promising results that be- lution” of the convective envelope of the star by the in- came evident after the discovery of the first extrasolar fall of planets and/or planetesimals (e.g., Gonzalez 1998; planets is that their host stars seem to be very metal- Laughlin & Adams 1997; Laughlin 2000; Gonzalez et al. rich when compared with dwarf stars in the solar neigh- 2001). This pollution can be the result of the “complete” bourhood (Gonzalez 1998; Santos et al. 2000a – hereafter inward migration of a planet on to the star, the transfer Paper I; Gonzalez et al. 2001). This result, representing of material from the disc to the star as a result of the the only link between the presence of planets and a stellar migration process (Goldreich & Tremaine 1980; Lin et al. photospheric feature, has been given two main explana- 1996), or to the break-up and infall of a planet(s) on to tions. The first, is based on the classical view that giant the surface of the star due to gravitational interactions planets are formed by runaway accretion of gas on to a with other companions (Rasio & Ford 1996). The former “planetesimal” having up to 10 Earth masses. In such a point might be particularly important for the short-period case, we can expect that the higher the proportion is of systems (Queloz et al. 2000). dust to gas in the primordial cloud (i.e. metals), and con- The idea that planets and/or planetary material might sequently in the resulting proto-planetary disc, the more be engulfed by a star is to some extent supported by the rapidly and easily may planetesimals, and subsequently recent detection of 6Li in the planet host star HD 82943 the now observed giant planets be built. (Israelian et al. 2001) – interpreted as a signal of the accre- tion of a planet during the history of the star – and prob- Send offprint requests to:N.C.Santos, ably by the detection of a significant difference in iron e-mail: [email protected] abundances in the very similar pair of dwarfs 16 Cyg A ? Based on observations collected at the La Silla Observatory, and 16 Cyg B, which also have very different Li contents ESO (Chile), with the CORALIE spectrograph at the 1.2-m (Laws & Gonzalez 2001; Gonzalez 1998). Euler Swiss telescope, with the FEROS spectrograph at the 1.52-m ESO telescope (Observing run 66.C-0116 B), and using Besides the [Fe/H] differences, there is currently some the UES spectrograph at the 4-m William Hershel Telescope debate about possible anomalies concerning other ele- (WHT), at La Palma (Canary Islands). ments (Paper I; Gonzalez et al. 2001; Smith et al. 2001). Article published by EDP Sciences and available at http://www.aanda.org or http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010648 1020 N. C. Santos et al.: The metal-rich nature of stars with planets Table 1. Volume-limited sample of stars without detected giant planets. Star Teff log gξt [Fe/H] N(Fe i) N(Fe ii) σ(Fe i) σ(Fe ii)Mass −1 (K) (cgs) (km s )[M ] HD 1581 5940 4.44 1.13 −0.15 31 7 0.04 0.05 0.99 0.02 HD 4391 5955 4.85 1.22 0.01 36 5 0.05 0.09 1.22 0.04 HD 5133 5015 4.82 0.92 −0.08 36 6 0.05 0.07 0.81 0.04 HD 7570 6135 4.42 1.46 0.17 35 7 0.04 0.06 1.19 0.02 HD 10360 5045 4.77 0.89 −0.19 36 5 0.04 0.04 0.70 0.03 HD 10647 6130 4.45 1.31 −0.03 34 7 0.03 0.05 1.14 0.03 HD 10700 5370 4.70 1.01 −0.50 38 6 0.04 0.04 0.68 0.02 HD 14412 5410 4.70 1.01 −0.44 35 6 0.04 0.01 0.78 0.05 HD 17925 5220 4.60 1.44 0.08 35 6 0.07 0.04 0.92 0.06 HD 20010 6240 4.27 2.23 −0.20 33 6 0.05 0.08 1.33 0.01 HD 20766 5770 4.68 1.24 −0.20 35 7 0.04 0.04 0.97 0.04 HD 20794 5465 4.62 1.04 −0.36 39 7 0.05 0.05 0.74 0.02 HD 20807 5865 4.59 1.28 −0.22 37 7 0.04 0.04 0.95 0.02 HD 23249 5135 4.00 1.12 0.17 36 7 0.06 0.08 0.84 0.01 HD 23356 5035 4.73 0.96 −0.05 36 6 0.06 0.07 0.83 0.03 HD 23484 5230 4.62 1.13 0.10 37 6 0.05 0.07 0.92 0.06 HD 26965A 5185 4.73 0.75 −0.26 37 5 0.05 0.03 0.71 0.02 HD 30495 5880 4.67 1.29 0.03 37 7 0.04 0.03 1.11 0.04 HD 36435 5510 4.78 1.15 0.03 37 6 0.06 0.03 1.04 0.05 HD 38858 5750 4.56 1.22 −0.22 36 7 0.04 0.02 0.91 0.02 HD 39091 5995 4.48 1.30 0.09 37 7 0.04 0.04 1.10 0.02 HD 40307 4925 4.57 0.79 −0.25 37 4 0.06 0.10 0.76 0.07 HD 43162 5630 4.57 1.36 −0.02 35 7 0.05 0.04 0.99 0.04 HD 43834 5620 4.56 1.10 0.12 38 7 0.05 0.05 0.96 0.02 HD 50281A 4790 4.75 0.85 0.07 31 4 0.05 0.12 0.79 0.01 HD 53705 5810 4.40 1.18 −0.19 36 7 0.03 0.03 0.92 0.01 HD 53706 5315 4.50 0.90 −0.22 36 7 0.05 0.08 0.88 0.05 HD 65907A 5940 4.56 1.19 −0.29 39 7 0.04 0.04 0.94 0.01 HD 69830 5455 4.56 0.98 0.00 38 7 0.05 0.03 0.89 0.06 HD 72673 5290 4.68 0.81 −0.33 38 6 0.04 0.04 0.78 0.06 HD 74576 5080 4.86 1.20 0.04 36 5 0.06 0.05 0.91 0.04 HD 76151 5825 4.62 1.08 0.15 38 7 0.03 0.04 1.09 0.04 HD 84117 6140 4.35 1.38 −0.04 34 7 0.04 0.06 1.14 0.01 HD 189567 5750 4.57 1.21 −0.23 37 7 0.04 0.05 0.89 0.01 HD 191408A 5025 4.62 0.74 −0.51 37 4 0.06 0.09 0.61 0.04 HD 192310 5125 4.63 0.88 0.05 36 6 0.06 0.08 0.78 0.04 HD 196761 5460 4.62 1.00 −0.27 38 7 0.05 0.05 0.81 0.03 HD 207129 5910 4.53 1.21 −0.01 36 7 0.04 0.03 1.03 0.02 HD 209100 4700 4.68 0.60 0.01 34 3 0.07 0.06 0.64 0.09 HD 211415 5925 4.65 1.27 −0.16 35 7 0.03 0.04 0.99 0.02 +0.01 HD 216803 4647 4.88 0.90 0.07 28 3 0.07 0.08 0.77−0.18 HD 222237 4770 4.79 0.35 −0.22 37 3 0.08 0.08 – HD 222335 5310 4.64 0.97 −0.10 33 5 0.05 0.04 0.86 0.05 But the relatively low number of exoplanets known, and hosting planets with those of stars “without” planets, au- possible systematics with respect to the samples do not thors had access only to published metallicity studies of permit firm conclusions to be reached on the subject.
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